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FISKERTON, a township in Rolleston parish, Notts; on the river Trent, and on the Derby and Lincoln railway, 3 miles SE of Southwell. It has a station on the railway, a post office under Newark, a ferry to East Stoke, and a Wesleyan chapel; and it anciently had an Augustinian friary, founded in 1132 by Ralph D'Eyn-court, made subject to Thurgarton abbey, and suppressed in the time of Philip and Mary. Acres, 1, 043. Real property, £3, 169. Pop., 319. Houses, 77.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Fiskerton Parish Rolleston Parish Nottinghamshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Fiskerton |
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